About Magnus Wahlberg

Magnus has a Ph. D. in bioacoustics from the University of Southern
Denmark. Currently he an associate professor of biology at the University. He was formerly chief scientist at Fjord&Baelt in
Denmark, specializing in research on marine mammals and outreach activities
for school children and other visiting guests of all ages.

In the late 1990s Magnus was appointed
by the Royal Swedish Navy to investigate top-secret underwater recordings of
the so-called Typical sound which was supposed to be caused by intruding Russian
submarines in Swedish waters. The sound turned out to have its origin not in
a submarine, but in bubbles release by the anus of herring, the staplefood
fish of Scandinavia. Magnus published
his findings together with his colleague Haakan Westerberg in 2003, and won the Ig Nobel
Prize in Biology in 2004, together
with Ben Wilson, Lawrence Dill and Robert Batty.